Ingredients for Snowflake Sugar Cookies

Series Summary

The great thing about cookies is that you can eat them with your hands, they can be made out of a variety of sweet ingredients and you can decorate them with anything you want. Thanks to the discovery of sugar back in the Persian Empire, people have been making sweet desserts for centuries. Cookies are just one example of the goodness that sugar brings, but it might just be the best example of that goodness. Aside from sugar, cookies can have a variety of ingredients to give them a unique flavor, including spices, chocolate, butter, peanut butter, nuts or dried fruit. While chocolate chip cookies are the most well known of cookies, sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies and snickerdoodles are also popular favorites.

In this free video series, our expert will show you how to make homemade snowflake cookies for the holidays. If you are looking for a great winter cooking project, let our expert show you how to turn a regular sugar cookie into a snowflake cookie. Learn how to mix the dry ingredients, cream the butter, and add the wet ingredients. Get tips on mixing and cooling the dough, rolling out the snowflake cookie dough, and cutting out the snowflake shape. You will also learn how to bake and decorate your beautiful and tasty snowflake cookies for your next holiday party.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail and on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to make these beautiful snowflakes cookies. Our first step to making snowflake cookies is going to be going over all of the ingredients that you will need. We are using a basic row sugar cookie recipe so that the ingredients are fairly simple. We want flour, 1 egg, baking powder, vanilla, butter or margarine and shortening, of course sugar and salt. Now if you want to add some other flavors you can but for the purpose of our snowflakes because we want to keep the dough nice and as close to white as possible. We are going to have these simple ingredients very pale colors which will also help when decorating and which will be our next step when I talk about the decorating and other equipment that you'll need. But basic flavor will be vanilla you might want to add lemon instead it's up to based on your taste are and how you want the cookies to turn out. "